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    ‘It was sick’

    Apr 04, 2021 2 minutes
    by Paul Thomas

    Which sport is this? “The 18-year-old scored 165.75 points in the best-two-of-three run qualification, landing a backside 720 melon grab and switch backside 900 stalefish.” (Stuff, December 2019)

    The answer is snowboarding. The 18-year-old in question was Kiwi Zoi Sadowski-Synnott, who was competing in the finals of the Air + Style FIS (International Ski Federation) World Cup event in Beijing.

    In , his disturbingly funny 1972 novel about American football and nuclear warfare, Don DeLillo wrote that “much of the appeal of sport derives from its dependence on elegant gibberish … And of course it remains the author’s permanent duty to unbox the lexicon for all eyes to see.”

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